Man With Hatchet Attacks Group of NY Cops

That's so upsetting, that one officer is in critical condition. I think I'm safe, I mean, I don't think about anything like these shootings/attacks happening anywhere near me. But I know it's possible, and getting more so every day:(
 
And a first year high school student in Washington State attacked other students in the school cafeteria, shooting one dead, wounding three others then turned the gun on himself. It was a targeted shooting.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-...eported-school-shooting-in-marysville/5841086

It's a violent world. There have been over 50 school shootings in the US this year. Home schooling is looking better all the time.

More on the shooter here: http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2014/10/shooting-reported-at-marysville-pilchuck-high-school/
 

Yes, and it's obviously not the only country that is having these types of issues. Seems like some folks in other countries just like to focus on the US and all it's faults though. Well hey, whatever makes your day. One thing about it, man and woman lives in every part of the world, so with that alone, I wouldn't be to quick to throw the first stone.
 
Returning to the OP, the police are calling it a terrorist attack but paradoxically say that it was spontaneous.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said Friday he was comfortable calling the incident a terrorist attack.
“This was a terrorist attack, certainly,” Bratton said.

But he also stopped short of including the attack in the list of terror plots against the city since Sept. 11, 2001, saying the investigation was continuing. Bratton also said it appears to have been a spontaneous attack, but said the fact that Thompson was walking with ax indicates some preparation.

Security video and witness accounts appeared to leave no doubt that Thompson purposely targeted four rookie officers, police said.
The attack occurred at about 2 p.m. Thursday while the officers were standing together on foot patrol, police said.

Without a word, Thompson swung at an officer who blocked the blow with his arm. Another officer was hit in the back of the head and fell to the ground.Bratton said the incident took all of seven seconds.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/10...al-but-stable-after-hatchet-attack-in-queens/
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It really is a violent world.
 
Just pointing out the bleeding obvious that while terrorists are the flavour of the month, violence is all around us. Did I not mention on another thread the death of three people in Victoria Australia, all from one family, who were shot dead by a neighbour?

It turns out that the dispute was about dust blowing from one property to another.

http://www.9news.com.au/national/20...te-led-to-triple-shooting-in-country-victoria

As I said, a violent world.
 
... Bratton also said it appears to have been a spontaneous attack, but said the fact that Thompson was walking with ax indicates some preparation ...
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No! Really?!?! Are you sure he wasn't just getting ready to chop down his Christmas tree? :rolleyes:

Idiots.
 
nwlady said:
Yes, and it's obviously not the only country that is having these types of issues. Seems like some folks in other countries just like to focus on the US and all it's faults though. Well hey, whatever makes your day. One thing about it, man and woman lives in every part of the world, so with that alone, I wouldn't be to quick to throw the first stone.
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Sometimes it takes outsiders to be the catalyst for change. In 2012 Jackie McConnell, a top trainer of Tennessee Walker horses in Shelbyville, Tennessee was charged and convicted of multiple acts of animal abuse that ultimately saw him being thrown out of the industry, getting probation for three years and a $75,000.00 fine and being removed from that industry's Hall of Fame where he'd held an honoured position. For years, the government trusted that industry to police itself and force vicious people to quit abusing their horses. But it took hidden cameras wielded by the Humane Society to expose exactly what was going on. And the industry complained, whined and screamed that 'outsiders had no right'. http://www.themarysue.com/humane-society-horses/

When environmental activists from the US show up in Canada to highlight how our laws are harming the environment (which effects all of us throughout the world), I welcome them. I welcome their help, their speeches, their articles, their letters to the government...... We are a global village, with economies and the environment intertwined so closely that it's pretty much impossible to separate them. Just look at the concerns about ebola and closing borders and banning travel, etc.

Sometimes it takes outsiders because the 'insiders' have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo or they are apathetic or uninformed. I think part of the problem in this world is that we think as individuals (which can go all the way up to individual countries) and in terms of 'my, my, my', when we need to begin thinking of ourselves as connected and part of the greater 'whole' or 'we, we, we'.

You're right, many countries are being affected by the turmoil in the ME, and each country has to determine how they will deal with the issue within their own borders, but if there are catalysts that bring about the situation in the first place, is it sensible to ignore them for the sake of pride? Or does it make more sense to identify the causes and then hopefully work towards correction?
 
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oakapple said:
Who knows? Probably concealed though, I would think.
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Since he was wearing a hood until he looked directly at the police it was probably pretty hard to tell what he was going to do. And actually although longer than a pistol it's not as bulky thus easier to conceal not that I would walk around with an ax in my pocket. My guess he had bag or backpack somewhere along the line.
 
WhatInThe said:
Since he was wearing a hood until he looked directly at the police it was probably pretty hard to tell what he was going to do. And actually although longer than a pistol it's not as bulky thus easier to conceal not that I wouldn't walk around with an ax in my pocket. My guess he had bag or backpack somewhere along the line.
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It must be really difficult to hide an axe..
 
There's video footage. It was a hatchet, not an axe, and it was in his backpack until he saw the police in a group. His first intended victim apparently deflected the blow with his forearm and then he hit the second one on the back of the head. Then the police opened fire.

A bystander was struck by a bullet but I wouldn't be holding the police culpable for that happening. She could just as easily have been hacked if the police hadn't brought him down.

In spite of his conversion to Islam I wouldn't class this as terrorism. Terrifying, certainly, but terrorism is more organised than this. I'd class him as a deranged and deluded person who may very well have had voices in his head.
 
Twixie said:
Is it normal that a man could walk around NYC brandishing an axe?
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Having lived in NYC for 7 years I can assure you that if you can imagine it, it has probably already been done.

I personally have seen people walking down the street with:


  • a cheetah on a leash
  • a running chainsaw
  • a Viking with a massive battleaxe
  • a guy with a hawk on his wrist
  • no clothing

So yeah, it's considered "normal" there ... :rolleyes:
 

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